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Lookups

Lookups are a concept in Druid where dimension values are (optionally) replaced with a new value. See dimension specs for more information. For the purpose of these documents, a "key" refers to a dimension value to match, and a "value" refers to its replacement. So if you wanted to rename appid-12345 to Super Mega Awesome App then the key would be appid-12345 and the value would be Super Mega Awesome App.

It is worth noting that lookups support use cases where keys map to unique values (injective) as per a country code and a country name, and also supports use cases where multiple IDs map to the same value as per multiple app-ids belonging to a single account manager.

Lookups do not have history. They always use the current data. This means that if the chief account manager for a particular app-id changes, and you issue a query with a lookup to store the app-id to account manager relationship, it will return the current account manager for that app-id REGARDLESS of the time range over which you query.

If you require data timerange sensitive lookups, such a use case is not currently supported dynamically at query time, and such data belongs in the raw denormalized data for use in Druid.

Very small lookups (count of keys on the order of a few dozen to a few hundred) can be passed at query time as a map lookup as per dimension specs.

Namespaced lookups are appropriate for lookups which are not possible to pass at query time due to their size, or are not desired to be passed at query time because the data is to reside in and be handled by the Druid servers. Namespaced lookups can be specified as part of the runtime properties file. The property is a list of the namespaces described as per the sections on this page.

druid.query.extraction.namespaceList=\
  [{ "type":"uri", "namespace":"some_uri_lookup","uri": "file:/tmp/prefix/",\
  "namespaceParseSpec":\
    {"format":"csv","columns":["key","value"]},\
  "pollPeriod":"PT5M"},\
  { "type":"jdbc", "namespace":"some_jdbc_lookup",\
  "connectorConfig":{"createTables":true,"connectURI":"jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/druid","user":"druid","password":"diurd"},\
  "table": "lookupTable", "keyColumn": "mykeyColumn", "valueColumn": "MyValueColumn", "tsColumn": "timeColumn"}]

Proper funcitonality of Namespaced lookups requires the following extension to be loaded on the broker, peon, and historical nodes: io.druid.extensions:namespace-lookup

Cache Settings

The following are settings used by the nodes which service queries when setting namespaces (broker, peon, historical)

Property	Description	Default
druid.query.extraction.namespace.cache.type	Specifies the type of caching to be used by the namespaces. May be one of [offHeap, onHeap]. offHeap uses a temporary file for off-heap storage of the namespace (memory mapped files). onHeap stores all cache on the heap in standard java map types.	onHeap

The cache is populated in different ways depending on the settings below. In general, most namespaces employ a pollPeriod at the end of which time they poll the remote resource of interest for updates. The notable exception being the kafka namespace lookup as defined below.

URI namespace update

The remapping values for each namespaced lookup can be specified by json as per

{
  "type":"uri",
  "namespace":"some_lookup",
  "uri": "s3://bucket/some/key/prefix/",
  "namespaceParseSpec":{
    "format":"csv",
    "columns":["key","value"]
  },
  "pollPeriod":"PT5M",
  "versionRegex": "renames-[0-9]*\\.gz"
}

Property	Description	Required	Default
namespace	The namespace to define	Yes
pollPeriod	Period between polling for updates	No	0 (only once)
versionRegex	Regex to help find newer versions of the namespace data	Yes
namespaceParseSpec	How to interpret the data at the URI	Yes

The pollPeriod value specifies the period in ISO 8601 format between checks for updates. If the source of the lookup is capable of providing a timestamp, the lookup will only be updated if it has changed since the prior tick of pollPeriod. A value of 0, an absent parameter, or null all mean populate once and do not attempt to update. Whenever an update occurs, the updating system will look for a file with the most recent timestamp and assume that one with the most recent data.

The versionRegex value specifies a regex to use to determine if a filename in the parent path of the uri should be considered when trying to find the latest version. Omitting this setting or setting it equal to null will match to all files it can find (equivalent to using ".*"). The search occurs in the most significant "directory" of the uri.

The namespaceParseSpec can be one of a number of values. Each of the examples below would rename foo to bar, baz to bat, and buck to truck. All parseSpec types assumes each input is delimited by a new line. See below for the types of parseSpec supported.

csv lookupParseSpec

Parameter	Description	Required	Default
columns	The list of columns in the csv file	yes	null
keyColumn	The name of the column containing the key	no	The first column
valueColumn	The name of the column containing the value	no	The second column

example input

bar,something,foo
bat,something2,baz
truck,something3,buck

example namespaceParseSpec

"namespaceParseSpec": {
  "format": "csv",
  "columns": ["value","somethingElse","key"],
  "keyColumn": "key",
  "valueColumn": "value"
}

tsv lookupParseSpec

Parameter	Description	Required	Default
columns	The list of columns in the csv file	yes	null
keyColumn	The name of the column containing the key	no	The first column
valueColumn	The name of the column containing the value	no	The second column
delimiter	The delimiter in the file	no	tab (\t)

example input

bar|something,1|foo
bat|something,2|baz
truck|something,3|buck

example namespaceParseSpec

"namespaceParseSpec": {
  "format": "tsv",
  "columns": ["value","somethingElse","key"],
  "keyColumn": "key",
  "valueColumn": "value",
  "delimiter": "|"
}

customJson lookupParseSpec

Parameter	Description	Required	Default
keyFieldName	The field name of the key	yes	null
valueFieldName	The field name of the value	yes	null

example input

{"key": "foo", "value": "bar", "somethingElse" : "something"}
{"key": "baz", "value": "bat", "somethingElse" : "something"}
{"key": "buck", "somethingElse": "something", "value": "truck"}

example namespaceParseSpec

"namespaceParseSpec": {
  "format": "customJson",
  "keyFieldName": "key",
  "valueFieldName": "value"
}

simpleJson lookupParseSpec

The simpleJson lookupParseSpec does not take any parameters. It is simply a line delimited json file where the field is the key, and the field's value is the value.

example input

{"foo": "bar"}
{"baz": "bat"}
{"buck": "truck"}

example namespaceParseSpec

"namespaceParseSpec":{
  "type": "simpleJson"
}

JDBC namespaced lookup

The JDBC lookups will poll a database to populate its local cache. If the tsColumn is set it must be able to accept comparisons in the format '2015-01-01 00:00:00'. For example, the following must be valid sql for the table SELECT * FROM some_lookup_table WHERE timestamp_column > '2015-01-01 00:00:00'. If tsColumn is set, the caching service will attempt to only poll values that were written after the last sync. If tsColumn is not set, the entire table is pulled every time.

Parameter	Description	Required	Default
namespace	The namespace to define	Yes
connectorConfig	The connector config to use	Yes
table	The table which contains the key value pairs	Yes
keyColumn	The column in table which contains the keys	Yes
valueColumn	The column in table which contains the values	Yes
tsColumn	The column in table which contains when the key was updated	No	Not used
pollPeriod	How often to poll the DB	No	0 (only once)

{
  "type":"jdbc",
  "namespace":"some_lookup",
  "connectorConfig":{
    "createTables":true,
    "connectURI":"jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/druid",
    "user":"druid",
    "password":"diurd"
  },
  "table":"some_lookup_table",
  "keyColumn":"the_old_dim_value",
  "valueColumn":"the_new_dim_value",
  "tsColumn":"timestamp_column",
  "pollPeriod":600000
}

Kafka namespaced lookup

If you need updates to populate as promptly as possible, it is possible to plug into a kafka topic whose key is the old value and message is the desired new value (both in UTF-8). This requires the following extension: "io.druid.extensions:kafka-extraction-namespace"

{
  "type":"kafka",
  "namespace":"testTopic",
  "kafkaTopic":"testTopic"
}

Parameter	Description	Required	Default
namespace	The namespace to define	Yes
kafkaTopic	The kafka topic to read the data from	Yes

Kafka renames

The extension kafka-extraction-namespace enables reading from a kafka feed which has name/key pairs to allow renaming of dimension values. An example use case would be to rename an ID to a human readable format.

Currently the historical node caches the key/value pairs from the kafka feed in an ephemeral memory mapped DB via MapDB.

Configuration

The following options are used to define the behavior and should be included wherever the extension is included (all query servicing nodes):

Property	Description	Default
druid.query.rename.kafka.properties	A json map of kafka consumer properties. See below for special properties.	See below

The following are the handling for kafka consumer properties in druid.query.rename.kafka.properties

Property	Description	Default
zookeeper.connect	Zookeeper connection string	localhost:2181/kafka
group.id	Group ID, auto-assigned for publish-subscribe model and cannot be overridden	UUID.randomUUID().toString()
auto.offset.reset	Setting to get the entire kafka rename stream. Cannot be overridden	smallest

Testing the kafka rename functionality

To test this setup, you can send key/value pairs to a kafka stream via the following producer console:

./bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --property parse.key=true --property key.separator="->" --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic testTopic

Renames can then be published as OLD_VAL->NEW_VAL followed by newline (enter or return)